More excerpts from Tom Price's hearing (HHS) today (incl questions from Warren)
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Strongbad (aka Rambler14)
Jan 18 '17, 12:09
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If there’s one exchange with Price that appeared to get under the GOP’s skin, it was Elizabeth Warren’s.
The Massachusetts Democrat began her questions by reading out the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid Price proposed in previous budgets before repeatedly asking Price to ensure that he wouldn’t cut a dollar from entitlement programs.
Dollars are “the wrong metric,” Price replied. “It’s the care of the patients.”
“You might to print out President-elect Trump’s statement ‘I am not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid’ and post that above your desk in your new office because Americans will be watching to make sure you follow through on that promise,” Warren said.
Price did not get a chance to respond before Warren began asking Price about his stocks.
Soon thereafter, Isakson took to the mic to call for more civility.
“I respect everybody on this committee tremendously. I respect the nominee,” he said.
Regarding Price’s stocks, Isakson said any senator could easily fall into similar problems, citing Philip Morris stock allegedly owned by Minnesota Democrat Al Franken.
“It’s entirely possible for any of us to have somebody making investments on our behalf and us not know where that money is invested because of the very way it works,” he said.
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